Sentences with phrase «engaged by abstraction»

He is considered by many to be the first African American artist fully engaged by abstraction.

Not exact matches

The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

Visually, The Garden of Delights alludes to abstraction, and conceptually it engages with the late seventeenth and eighteenth century casta paintings commissioned by Spanish officials in Spain's New World colonies in the Americas that depicted the intermingling of three major races.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

While the title alludes to the well - known 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, this exhibition focuses on a literal lightness of materials and engages the tradition of abstraction.

Works by Leo Hurzlmeir, Richard Schur & Brent Hallard (l to r) March 12 — May 2, 2009 Exhibiting artists: Kasarian Dane, Stephan Fritsch, Brent Hallard, Leo Hurzlmeir, Robin McDonnell, Mel Prest, Richard Schur, Nancy White, John Zurier Pharmaka is pleased to present «TRANS: formal» the Los Angeles manifestation in a series of traveling shows by nine artists from Germany, Japan and the United States who are all engaged in a dialogue about Abstraction -LSB-...]

This lecture will explore works in a variety of media by artists such as Carmen Herrera, Frank Stella, Anthony McCall, and Hito Steyerl, which all engage with modernist abstraction and disrupt habitual ways of perceiving space and form.

To celebrate the recent gift of the painting One (1970), by American artist Sam Gilliam (b. 1933), the Block Museum will present a focused exhibition of works by artists engaged with abstraction and the expansion of painting in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.

Whitten was hugely influenced by de Kooning (whom he has admitted to following around like a puppy) but his work, which explores the possibilities of paint, also examines abstraction as a valid form of engaging with the black experience.

By turning away from abstraction to engage with natural shapes, colours, and textures over the next decade, Diebenkorn did the exploration and made the discoveries that did not happen earlier in his career.

Informed by the interdisciplinary practices of earlier visual artists who engaged the applied arts, poetry, theater, and dance, she merges the rarified tradition of abstraction with techniques and materials common to decor and craft.

Ranging from a 1914 abstraction by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian to a luminous 1960 abstraction by Mark Rothko and oversized prayer beads by contemporary artist Zarina, Beyond Belief provides an engaging alternative that prioritizes spirituality in the reading of art.

For Noguchi, working in ceramics was a way to engage with his Japanese heritage by combining eastern materials and methods with his surrealist abstractions.

Third were the thematic issues — Issue 2.6 / Food and Issue 2.15 / Performance: The Body Politic — and the thematic features that unfolded over the course of the year: Bruno Fazzolari's conversation series investigating abstraction and the terms on which it is defined or negotiated in contemporary artistic practice; Elyse Mallouk's Landfill series, which triangulates with a print journal, quarterly subscription, and website, all of which archive and redistribute the materials produced by socially engaged artworks; and Zachary Royer Scholz's series about the historical and contemporary economic, political, technological, and cultural factors that shape the visual arts in the Bay Area and its possibilities for the future.

The show attempts to bridge the gap between the two bodies of works by engaging the issue of pictorial representation as an abstraction of depicted objects — a far - reaching pursuit for compositions and techniques that seem fairly simple and straightforward on the surface.

Lundeberg's later work, by contrast, shifted focus to expressing psychic moods through more forthright abstraction, while continuing to engage both the material and spiritual worlds through her use of form, color, shape, and line.

She studied with the German - born guru of painterly abstraction Hans Hofmann, but she shunned the modes of fervent expressiveness — promoted as Action painting by Greenberg's agonistic rival critic Harold Rosenberg — that engaged most artists of the so - called second generation of Abstract Expressionism.

The sculpture exhibits ranged from Vincent Barré's recent works in France, to Robert Taplin's witty narratives in Philadelphia, to Anthony Caro's steel constructions from the 1960s in Los Angeles; the painting exhibits included abstractions by Thomas Nozkowski, Atta Kwami, and Larry Poons, landscapes by Julian Hatton and Graham Nickson, and an engaging, odd - ball installation by Summer Wheat, all in New York.

Existing in the realm of both playful and contemplative discovery, the artist's immersive work encourages viewers to engage in inner exploration and escape the barriers of the physical world by incorporating abstraction with hints of figurations.

Magdalena Abakanowicz's massive 1973 «Wheel with Rope», an aggressive sculpture made of found industrial materials, contrasts with defining 1970s «pour pieces» by Lynda Benglis, who solved the riddle of how to translate gestural abstraction into sculpture by engaging walls and floors in a suggestive violation of spatial conventions.

Pharmaka is pleased to present «TRANS: formal» the Los Angeles manifestation in a series of traveling shows by nine artists from Germany, Japan and the United States who are all engaged in a dialogue about Abstraction in painting.